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02/05/2014

Dinosaur Roar - App Review

May 1st a new children's app launched. The Roarsome app brings iconic picture book to life!

The Dinosaur Roar app offers hours of storytelling, colouring and naming fun for young children.

"Inspired by the best-selling picture book Dinosaur Roar! the new Dinosaur Roar! app, created by Immediate Media Co, is a must for all young dinosaur fans. Using Paul Sticklands original designs and Henrietta Sticklands wonderful rhyming text, the app is aimed at 2-4 year old's and incorporates different storytelling functions, creative colouring options, as well as a fun ‘shake and name’ device."

We've been reviewing the app and so far little monkey is enjoying it! He especially loves the colouring. There are 14 dinosaur pictures to colour in and save. When little monkey completes each one, the dinosaurs roar! The name and shake feature is fun. You just type in a name, shake the device you are using and watch as your dinosaur name appears on screen. Mine came up as 'Mummy O Saurus'. The app has the option to mute the background sound or it can be played with it on. We've yet to review the reading section in depth, but you can see it has three different features. I can see this being a popular app with both monkeys, even the eldest at 6yrs old.

"The classic picture book Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland, was first published in the UK in 1994 and has become a publishing phenomenon, with sales of more than five million books worldwide. As this iconic children’s title marks its 20th Anniversary, owners Nurture Rights have appointed Penguin Random House as the new publishers, and have also teamed up with the Natural History Museum to develop and market the Dinosaur Roar! brand. Dinosaur Roar! is the inspiration for a major new project for preschoolers being developed by Nurture Rights, in association with the Natural History Museum, with a percentage of royalties from sales of the app going to support the work of the museum." You can find information on the special 20th Anniversary edition and buy it here.

The Dinosaur Roar! iOS app is priced at £1.99 in the UK and available worldwide for download from iTunes Why not follow Dinosaur Roar on Twitter

"To celebrate the launch of the brand new Dinosaur Roar! App, we’re looking for the nation’s fiercest roar. Parents everywhere can enter their child to win an iPad Mini, lots of Dinosaur Roar! goodies, and the chance to feature on the app. Parents simply have to record a short video of their child letting out a ferocious dinosaur roar, and share the clip with us for their chance to win. We’re looking for the loudest, squeakiest, fiercest, grumpiest, longest, dinosaur, as judged by Paul Stickland, so keep an eye out!"

How to enter:"On Facebook Either send videos via Direct Message, or post on our wall at facebook.com/dinosaurroar On Twitter Post videos and tag @DinosaurRoarBy email Send videos to roar@dinosaurroar.com

Terms and conditions:Competition closing date: 7th June 2014. Available to UK entrants only.Prize: 1 x iPad Mini (WiFi only), 1 x Dinosaur Roar! bag, 1 x Jumbo Floor Puzzle, 1 x 4-in-1 Puzzle, 1 x Memory Card Game, recording session for winning child to feature on next App updatePromoter: Immediate Media Company London Ltd. You must make sure that we have your entries by 11.59pm, 7th June 2014. 1. You can enter if you live in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Channel Islands, unless someone who lives in your house works for Immediate Media. 2. By entering the competition, you promise to us that you have read these rules and that you will follow them. 3. By entering this competition, parents/guardians grant permission to Immediate Media Company (publishers of the Dinosaur Roar! app) to post the winner’s video and name on its social media sites and www.dinosaurraur.com 4. Entries must be submitted by parents or guardians or adults who have obtained permission from the child’s parent/guardian. 5. We can’t include entries which arrive too late and we can’t accept responsibility if your entry is lost. 6. The winner will be judged on how fierce and entertaining it is by Paul Stickland and the Dinosaur Roar! App team. 7. You must only enter this competition once. We don’t allow bulk entries or entries made by other people on your behalf. We will disqualify all entries which break this rule. 8. If you win, you will receive the prize described. iPad Mini is WiFi only. Puzzles unsuitable for children under the age of 18 months. We won’t swap the prize for cash. If there’s ever a reason why we can’t give you exactly the same prize, we’ll give you something just as good or better instead. 9. Winners will be contacted within 28 days of the closing date, either by post, telephone or email. 10. If we contact you to tell you you’re a winner, but you don’t reply within a month, we may have to offer the prize to a runner-up or give it away in a future competition. 11. We will use your name, address and any other details that you give us to run this competition. If you win we will pass them to the person who’s providing the prize so that they can post it to you and we may use your first name and county in the magazine or on our website. We won’t use them for any other reason without your permission. 12. You can find out the winner’s first name and county once the competition is over by sending a stamped addressed envelope to Competition Rules, ATTN: Marketing Coordinator, Dinosaur Roar! App, Immediate Media Company London Limited, Vineyard House, 44 Brook Green, Hammersmith, W6 7BT. Remember to tell us which magazine, issue number and competition you’d like to know about. You can read our privacy policy at www.immediatemedia.co.uk/privacy-policy.*This competition is be no means associated with My Monkeys Don't Sit Still. The App has been gifted to us for review purposes. All thoughts and opinions are my own unless "quoted" within the above text"

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